New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-04
A DOWN-EAST SNOW STORM.
THE WORST KNOWN IN FIFTEEN YEARS.
FIFTEEN DEGREES BELOW ZERO IN MAINE-A TEN
PEST ALONG THE COAST.


PEST ALONG THE COAST.
(Br TELEoRAPu TIE rRIBuNR
BosroN. April 3.-The snow storm of Friday and
Saturday In New England was one of the worst Of
the winter. 1t reached Boston at an carly hour
Saturday morning and ragged furlously all day and
we'll into the night The total precipitation was
eleven inches. The snow was very soft, the tenn
perature being barely low enough to prevent it
from melting as it fell. The wind from the east.
ward reached velocity of forty miles an hour
The storm nterfered with travel. especially tho
street-car lines IN and around Boston.
Peabody car was showed In in Washington-st,
Lynn, and 1t was about two hours before 1t got
started. At Marblehead, horse-car travel was sus-
pended and business at o standstiil. No yes-
sells arrived at Gloucester from sea on
Saturday. aud it is feared that much
damage has been done to Shipping
along the coast. Early in the afternoon the street.
at Brockton were obliged to stop running.
Word comes from Cohasset that considerable
damage has been done along the south shore. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are broken, aud the
poles are down in several places. The Ouxbury
cable Office unable to reach Boston over any of
its wires, either by way of Kingston or Cohasset.
The lines are broken between Duxbury and Kings
ton and between East Marshfcld and Cohasset.
Dispatches from various points in the Granite
State indicate that the storm was very severe, and
that fences were blown down in many localities
and considerable damage done to farm property.
The news from Portsmouth last night was that
the steamer Katahdn. from Boston for Portland.
was in the harbor. She had terribly
rough time of IT, and landed 125 passengers
at Newcastle. The steamer is all right, but it Is
said that she could not heve lived much longer in
the rough sea.
At COntOocoOk the great body of snow begins to
create apprehension of an excess of water when
the thaw sets in. For instance. reservoir OF 4OO
acres In Deerng is rising, the water being within
foot Of OveIhowng.
Throughout Maine a terrible northeast tempest
has been raging. The mercury at Greenvle yes
terday was 15o below zero. Western trains were
an hour and half late at Bangor, and the snow il
ten inches Deep
A dispatch from Block Island, r, l., says: "A
northeast storm here for two days has been terri
bic one and decidedly the toughest of the winter.
The Signal Service observer reports that tho
wind blew at an average rate of forty.ive miles an
hour for thirty six hours. the lowest velocity being
thlrty-six and the highest fifty-six miles during
that time. A dangerous sea was running and the
beach strcwn with fragments OF the schooner
after she struck the breakwaler on Friday. Ihe
crew saved and properly cared for; captain
John waters hnt th on snow so
by far the heaviest known there for fifteen years.
The schooner Oceana was.stranded four miles
north of Gurnet Light about G:l5 p. m. on Satur-
day. She was loaded with lime from Rockland.
Me- to New-York The crew was saved by tue
hfe-saviDg crew at the Gurnet station Inc yessei
was burned by the Stacking of the LIME and Is "a
total loss. ,,-
Several vessels from the Georges and Grand BANK
report that the storm was the seyerest Tor years
and all are more or less damaged The Monitor re-
ports speaking the schooner Abbe I. Morris on inc
Grand Bank. who reported losing t%o OF her crew
by the capsizng of dory. Heavy field Ice is re-
ported east of Sable Island. There is a large neet
on the Georges, and 1t is feared that much dacago
has beeu done.